Fear and paranoia lurked beneath the tech company’s shiny surface. Is there anybody who can match the late entreprenuer?

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pple last month unveiled the best results in its 35-year history. It sold 37m
iPhones in 90 countries, 15m iPads, and more than 5m Macs. In three months.
The boom allowed the firm briefly to reclaim the crown of “most valuable
company in the world” from Exxon Mobil, the oil giant. And yet, and yet… The
big question that has hung over the company since its chief executive, Steve
Jobs, succumbed to pancreatic cancer four months ago remains: will Apple be
Apple with its charismatic founder no longer at its helm? Or will it
gradually slide toward unremarkability as the pipeline of devices dreamt up
during Jobs’s reign runs dry?